Email from Ngeti
An Ethnography of Sorcery, Redemption, and Friendship in Global Africa
Email from Ngeti is a captivating story of sorcery, redemption, and transnational friendship in the globalized twenty-first century. When the anthropologist James Smith returns to Kenya to begin fieldwork for a new research project, he meets Ngeti Mwadime, a young man from the Taita Hills who is as interested in the United States as Smith is in Taita. Ngeti possesses a savvy sense of humor and an unusual command of the English language, which he teaches himself by watching American movies and memorizing the Oxford English Dictionary. Smith and Mwadime soon develop a friendship that comes to span years and continents, impacting both men in pro…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Mwadime, Ngeti
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95940-8
- EAN: 9780520959408
- Produktnummer: 21596473
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 235 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'109 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
James H. Smith is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Davis, and the author of Bewitching Development: Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Development in Neoliberal Kenya.Ngeti Mwadime lives, works, and looks for opportunities in the Taita Hills and Mombasa, Kenya.
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